[cfe-dev] cc language dialect

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:03:16PM -0400, David Chisnall wrote:
> 
> When using clang as cc, we are finding that a lot of programs rely on
> the fact that c99 is a c99 compiler, and cc is a c89 compiler.

I don't think that's the case. From my experience, they depend on cc to
implement the semi-broken GNU inline semantic, but otherwise don't have
a problem with a c99 compiler. That's an important difference.

Joerg